In collaboration with Lisa Sullivan and Erin Vearncombe at the Writing-Integrated Teaching (WIT) Program at the Faculty of Arts & Science, we organized and delivered a workshop called, Affirming writing: Teaching writing about communities in affirming ways. The goals of the workshop are (1) to help the participants understand what affirming writing is and the complexities associated with it and (2) to equip participants with tools to help teach their students about affirming writing. In the workshop, we will look at 4 case studies: Indigenous communities, immigrant communities, transgender communities and Deaf communities. For each case, someone who works with these communities, and in some cases is a member of these communities, will discuss examples of affirming and non-affirming writing about the community, and why this writing is or is not affirming.